Closure-applying apparatus



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Patented' Mar. 6, 1923.

, f rma CONSTANT J'. KRYZANOWSKY, OF MOUNT WASHINGTON, MARYLAND,ASSIGNOR TO THE CROWN CORK AND SEAL COMPANY OF BALTIMORE CITY, OFBALTIMORE, MARYLAND, A CORPORATION OF MARYLAND.

v CLOSURE-APPLYING APPARATUS.

Application filed May 31, 1917.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CONSTANT J. KRY- zANowsnY,a citizen of the United States, residing at Mount lifasliington, countyof Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Closure-Applying Apparatus, fully described andrepresented' in the following speciication and the accompanyingdrawings, forming a part of the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in machines for applyingclosures to receptacles and particularly to a bottle capping machine,such, for example, as a machine for applying the usual crown closures tobottles.

One of the principal objects of the invention is to provide a machinecapable of applying closures at a higher rate of speed than hasheretofore been practicable with machines previously known.

A further object of the invention is to provide a machine which can beadjusted to work in connection with any one of a plurality of types offillers, such as are now on the market, thereby avoiding the necessityof specially constructing a closure-applying machine for the particulartype of filler with which it is to operate.

Another object of the invention is to provide a bottle capping machinein which the percentage of loss due to breakage of bottles or imperfectcapping will be reduced notwithstanding the high speed of operation. l

With the above eneral objects in view and some others wliich will beobvious to those skilled in the art from the description hereinafter,the invention consists in the features, details of construction andcombinations of part-s which will first he described in connection withthe accompanying drawings illustrating one embodiment of theinventiton', and then more particularly pointed out.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in section of abottle-capping machine embodying the invention in vits best form;

AFigure 2 is an enlarged vertical section,"

partly in elevation, through the head casing and its containedmechanism;

Figure 3 is a horizontal section through the head casing on the line 3,Fig. 2;

Serial No. 171,921.

Figure 4 is a similar vietTh on the line 4c, Fig. 2;

Figure 5 is an enlarged @tail sectional view illustrating thecompensating mechanism, a. pair of cam rollers, and one of thepresser-rod locking and unlocking devices;

Figure 6 is a detail lsectional View of a part of the presser rodlocking mechanism, this vie-w being taken at right angles to the view ofthe corresponding parts in Fig. 5;

Figures 7, 8 and 9 are yenlarged detail views of the dash-pot mechanism;

Figures 10, 1`l, and 12 are detail views, partly in elevation,illustrating the presserr'od locking and unlocking mechanism;

Figure 13 is 'an enlarged detail elevation illustrating the cam rollermechanism;

Figures 14, 15, 16 and 17 are enlarged detail views illustrating thecrown-chute .mechanism;

Figures 18 and 19 are horizontal sections through the` capping plungersand crownchute 'mechanism Figure 20 is a horizontal section on the line20-20, Fig. 1;

Figure 21 is a vertical section on an enlarged scale thro-ugh thetransmission mechanism;

Figures 22 and 23 are detail sectional views illustrating thegear-shifting mechamsm;

Figure 24 is a horizontal section through the transmission mechanism;

Figure 25 is a transverse section on the line 25-25, Fig. 24;

Figure 26 is a similar View on the line 26-26, Fig. 24;

Figure 27 is a similar view 27-27, Fig. 24;

Figure 28 is an enlarged sectional view on the line 28, Fig. 21;

Figure 29 is a detail vertical section of the oil pump taken on the line29--29 of Fig. 21.

Figure 3() is a horizontal section on the line 30-30, Fig. 29;

Figure 31 is a detail vertical section through the table, showing alsothe means for driving the conveyors;

Figure 32 is a' horizontal section on the line 32-32, Fig. 31;

Figure 33 is a detail side elevation, partly in section, of the tableand the feed .mechaon the line -nsm for bottles;

` lustrating able support or' Figure 34 is a vertical section on theline 34-34, Fig. 33;

Figure 35 is a horizontal section on the line 35-35, Fig. 31;

Figure 36 is a horizontal section on the line 36-36, Fig. 31;

Figure 37 is a side elevation of one of the conveyors;

Figure 38 is an enlarged vertical section on the line 38, Fig. 37;

Figure 39 is a similar view on the line 3939 Fig. 37;

Figure 40 is a 'detail horizontal section on the line 40-40, Fig. 37;

Figure 41 is a broken plan View, partly in section, showingthe tablemechanism and 'the'arrangement of the same relative to the transmissionmechanism and the conveyors; F igure42 is an enlarged detail plan view,partly broken away, of the table and feed mechanism;

Figures 43, 44 and 45 are detail views illlustrating the cage;

Figure 46 is a detail front elevation of the crown hopper and crowndistributing mechanism;

Figure 47 is a detail view partly in section of the loc-king hingemechanism for the head casing;

Figures 48, 49 and 50 are detail views ilthe means for collecting oil atthe bottom of a plunger and pumping it back to the head casing. y

The apparatus shown as the preferred embodiment of the inventioncomprises a suitpedestal, a head casing adjustable vertically withrelation to the support and carrying the capping mechanism and the meansfor supplying closures thereto, a bottle supporting device, or tablemechanism, adjustable with relation to the support, suitabletransmission mechanism for transmitting power to drive the machine, feedmechanism for supplying receptacles to the capping means, means forremoving the capped receptacles, and means for lubricating the movingparts.

The head caslng is so constructed and the capping mechanism is somounted within it that the latter may be removed from the casing as anentirety. In the present embodiment 4of the invention the casin isdivided vertically into two parts, one o? which, for example the frontpart 1, is removed from, but advantageously hinged to, the other part 2.In the present example, theline 'of joinder is made oil-tight in anysuitable way, as, for example, by grooving the meeting edge of the part1, and inserting a compressiblc packing 3 therein. See Figs. 2, 3 and 4.

For the purpose of hinging the front part 1 to the part 2 of the headcasing in such a manner as to permit it to be swung back in eitherdirection as desired, orto be removed from the part 2, a. specialforming of coneye-bolts 5 and 6, the upper one, 5, being.

slotted in a vertical direction and having an upward extending conicalend as indicated at 5a, Fig. 47.

The front 1 of the casing has a pair of lugs 7 and 7a with verticalopenings. In these openings is mounted a vertically slidable pintle baror rod 8, provided with a handle 9 by 'which it may be manipulated. Atthe upper end of the pintle rod 8 is fixed a cap 10 having a conicalsocket arranged to lit down upon the upward extending coned end 5a ofthe upper eye-bolt 5. At a suitable point, as, for example, above theupper lug 7 a of the front 1, the pintle bar 8 is provided with arcanilatch 11, fixed to the rod and arranged to swing beneath-the uppereyebolt 5, this latch having its upper surface inclined to engage acorrespondingly inclined portion on the eye-bolt 5. The lower end of thepintle rod 8 is arranged to enter the eye of the lower eye-bolt 6, andat this time the cap 10 will engage the coned end 5a of the uppereye-bolt 5. By then rotating the pintle-bar 8 b-y means of the handle 9the cam latch 11 is brought into engagement with the inclined surface ofthe upper eyebolt5, so that the pintle bar is locked against upwardmovement and the cap is drawn down tightly onto the coned end 5a. Byrotating the pintle bar in the direction to swing the latch 11 fromunder the upper eye-bolt 5, and then lifting the bar, the cap 10 isfreed from the coned end 5a while at the same time the lower end of thebar is lifted out of the lower eye-bolt 6. In this position theconnecting device is open and unlocked. As there are two such connectingdevices, one at each side of the head casing, it is obvious that if oneis unlocked, the front part l of the head casing may be swung outwardlike a door, so as to permit access to the interior mechanism. Sinceeither connecting device may be unlocked and the other allowed to remainin the locked position, the front part 1. of the head casing may beswung in either direction as desired. Furthermore, by unlocking bothconnecting devices simultaneously, the front part 1 may be entirelyremoved. Eachof the pintle bars 8 'may be provided at its lower' endwith a suitable cotter device, indicated at 8a, Fig. 47, which preventsthe accidentalrmovemen of the respective pintle bars in an upwarddirection. By proper adjustment of the nuts on the eye-bolts 5 and 6,the front part 1 may be arranged to fit tightly against the elasticpacking 3 between the two parts of the caslng.

